Chapter 5: Lost Love
Except for catching crab roe in the spring, which makes us crazy, most of the time we are so bored. Seven or eight people lived in three dormitories, only the larger one had a small black and white TV, and colleagues who wanted to read hid in the dormitory to read, and colleagues who didn't want to read huddled together to watch TV. However, in that relatively distant era, there were very few books of interest that could be seen, and there were almost no TV dramas that could accompany you to watch in the middle of the night, and we learned to smoke and drink. , and also learned the boundless nonsense of the whole world.
We all hope that these days will pass sooner, and we all hope that time will pass sooner, so that when the three-year service period is up, we can apply for a job transfer, and we can be transferred back to the city or to work in a school with better conditions closer to our home. In the evening, we almost couldn't get away from this topic in conversation, always calculating how long we had been here, how long we had left, and so on.
Although we should take root in remote and poor areas and work with peace of mind, because of the commitment of the three-year service period at the time of graduation assignment, we are always so calculating our days and always being so impulsive and restless.
One evening when I was out for a walk, I went to Ye'er's house.
A few of our colleagues were really bored after work that day, so we walked east along the path in front of the school, which we often walked, which was a small fishing village, and we almost walked all the roads more than once. At that time, Ye Er was playing with a few classmates by the pond at the foot of her mountain, and when she saw a few of our teachers coming, the timid three or two classmates had already fled, leaving only Ye Er and a few of their bold classmates standing there, seeing us coming, they were not at all restrained, and greeted our teachers warmly.
Ye'er invited us to her house as guests, and several of our colleagues shirked that they had something to do with going back, so they even said that they couldn't go, and asked her to go home early. Maybe it's because I often help Ye Er explain math problems, and Ye Er finally pleaded with me: "Teacher, come to my house, I want you to show my newborn baby sheep." Looking at Ye'er's sincere and pleading gaze, I couldn't bear to refuse Ye'er's invitation, so I agreed: "Okay, I'll go see your baby sheep." ”
Although the people here are fishermen, they go out fishing all the year round, but in order to supplement the family, almost every household will raise a few dozen goats, open the sheepfold in the morning, the sheep will automatically go out to graze, and when the children get out of school in the evening, the children will go up the mountain to find their own sheep. After a long time, the sheep, led by the head sheep, almost all graze in a few places not far from the station, and it is not particularly difficult to find them and drive them home.
A few of my colleagues went back to school, and I followed Ye'er along a path by the pond to the hillside, for a maximum of ten minutes, bypassing the big rock that was outcropping the ground, and walking less than a hundred meters to Ye'er's house. Ye'er's home is a small courtyard, with three main houses that are not big or high, and a small side house, which is used as a kitchen. At the corner between the main house and the kitchen, there is a simple wooden door made of wooden planks, which Ye'er said is their sheepfold.
After all, the child is a child, when I followed Ye'er to her house, Ye'er didn't know the etiquette of letting me into the house to sit and drink tea, but excitedly pushed open the door of her kitchen, her door was closed, not locked, almost every household at that time was like this.
Ye Er happily brought two cute little lambs from the kitchen, and said excitedly to me: "Teacher, this is the little lamb that was born yesterday in my family, beautiful, right?" Cute, right? "Yes, the little lamb that has only been born for two days is really so white, so lovely, so kind, so lovely. I reached out and touched the little lamb, and asked Ye'er curiously why no one was at home in her house. Ye'er said that her parents went out fishing, the eldest sister is married, the elder brother has not come home from work, only the second sister dropped out of school before finishing junior high school and is at home, and now she may go up the mountain to find their sheep.
Ye'er invited me to her house so strongly, so that I could share with her the joy of her newborn lamb. Yes, happiness should be shared.
However, who would have known, fate is impermanent, fate is predestined, and after five or six years, I have become the son-in-law of this family! I actually married the youngest daughter of this family!
Every school season, those of us who have just graduated and are assigned to the normal students, will always cause a sensation in this small fishing village, and we bring them hope, vitality, and even a different way of life.
In addition to work, most of our time is very free, not for a long time, we have some understanding of some basic information of their locals, and they also know a little about our basic situation through some local old teachers. After a month or two of work, the local people asked these old teachers to introduce us to the three students we had just assigned this year. At first, none of the three of us agreed, it always felt too sudden, and another reason was that we were shy and restrained, but after a long time, the number of lobbying was more, and we began to be moved, after all, we are also in the season of falling in love.
Their local girls are very willing to marry us people, although our salary is not high, but at least it is an iron rice bowl job, which is more secure, and after they marry us, as soon as the three-year service period is up, they can follow us out of that remote fishing village and come to our more prosperous and lively place near the city.
Soon, the three of us who went with us all had their own girlfriends under the introduction of the local old teacher.
The girlfriend of one of my classmates belongs to the type of innocent passion, this type of girl may be hurt on the emotional road, but this kind of girl often gets the love that really belongs to her, nearly thirty years have passed, they are still together, only their couple has achieved positive results. Another classmate's girlfriend belongs to the kind of snobbish girl who always has interests in her eyes, and soon, they break up.
The name of the girlfriend they introduced to me is Yanzi, a very nice name, this is my first time in love, the first time I fell in love, I really don't understand love, Yanzi is a little chubby, not like Ye'er's skin, Ye'er's skin belongs to that healthy wheat color, and Yanzi's skin is very white and white, especially Yanzi likes to wear a goose yellow clothes, which makes her skin even whiter. We would walk along the embankment every evening and then I would take her home. At that time, there were no entertainment facilities in that place, let alone any restaurants and coffee houses, and the only way we could fall in love was to walk along the river embankment. We were both for the first time, and we were so restrained and uncomfortable when we walked, we just whispered to each other, and we were careful to ask each other questions and answers。。。。。。
After about ten days, Yanzi asked me not to go home this week, saying that she would come to my dormitory to find me something. I agreed suspiciously, and asked her what she was looking for me, but Swallow just wouldn't say.
On Sunday, my other colleagues went home, I had a simple meal at noon, and I leaned on the bed to watch TV, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the swallows came. I was so happy that we sat on the edge of my bed, chatting and watching TV, and after a short time, the swallow looked at me affectionately and kissed me, it was my first kiss. However, what impressed me the most was the faint smell of bad breath in the swallow's mouth, maybe it was the smell of the mouth, there was no chewing gum in those days, and I was not used to it.
Swallow went back and said that her mother had asked her to come home early. When the swallow left, I clearly felt the tears in the swallow's eyes, and there was more reluctance。。。。。。
The next day was Monday, early in the morning I received a letter from Swallow to me, which was forwarded to me by Swallow to a student in our class, I hurried back to the dormitory to open the letter, it turned out to be a letter from Swallow to me to terminate the relationship. Why? You were still in the dormitory with me yesterday afternoon, why didn't you make it clear in person? Feeling teased, I immediately wrote a letter to Swallow and asked the student to bring it to Swallow at noon. However, when I went to school in the afternoon, this letter was brought back by this classmate in our class untouched, and it was not even opened!
I thought I was really being teased at that time, and I wrote to her, but she didn't read it, so I asked our introducer, and the introducer said that Yanzi's mother thought that when my three-year service period was up, she would definitely abandon her daughter when the job transfer was completed.
What kind of logic is this? This is an insult to my personality! Although I am unwilling, although I am resentful, I can only accept this fact.
After a week, the introducer told me that Swallow wanted to get back together with me, and Swallow's mother wanted me to visit her house this week.
I don't know where I got so much determination and courage at that time, and I flatly rejected Yanzi's decision to reconcile with me. At that time, I didn't know love, I was still strong-blooded, I thought my personality was insulted, I thought I was being teased by others。。。。。。
I don't know, maybe it's because of the faint smell of bad breath, maybe it's because I really have nothing to do with the swallow!